Hi there. In several past weeks I've been playing with the latest winLAME sources in order to update the libraries it comes with, fix some bugs and add support for new formats, as I think it's a great utility, specially useful for transcoding purposes (for portable usage, as an example).
So I submitted the changes to winLAME author in case he wants to add them to the official build. Meanwhile you can test it using the binary I provide below. I've been using it for several weeks on an almost daily basis with complete success so I think it's fairly stable.
So here's the summary of the changes:
* Updated libs: lame 3.96, mad 0.15.1b, sndfile 1.0.9, vorbis 1.0.1 (non-ICL compile), bass 2.0 (new), faad 2.0 (new), faac 1.24 (new), flac 1.1.0
* New input formats supported: FLAC, Windows Media Audio, Module files (MOD, S3M, XM, IT). Fixed support for (HE)AAC.
* New output formats supported: Windows Media Audio 9 (lossy & lossless) with tags
* AAC Input Module: faad 2.0 support, Fix for SBR (HE-AAC) support, Right channel remapping when reading multichannel files
* AAC Output Module: faac 1.23+ support, Quality setting added (-q), Automatic bandwitdh by default, Extended available bitrate and bandwidth settings, Right channel order for multichannel output
* MAD Input Module: Fix to skip large ID3v2 tags
* Lame Output Module: Added support for -Vx presets, Fixed lowpass setting being overwritten for presets
* Vorbis Input Module: Right channel remapping when reading multichannel files
* Vorbis Output Module: Right channel order for multichannel output
* Monkey's Audio Input Module: Fixed APE tag reading
* SndFile Input Module: Small fix to allow multichannel input
* Wave Output Module: 24-bit integer and float output support, WaveFormatExtensible WAV output support (useful for multichannel), Added AIFF and W64 file format output
* Miscellaneous: Lossy transcoding warning can be disabled (yeah!)
To summarize, with this build you can, for example, take a multichannel WAV or FLAC file and encode to multichannel AAC, or transcode from high quality MP3 to WMA for portable usage. Or you can decode any supported format to AIFF or WAV (integer or float, stereo or multichannel with WaveFormatExtensible headers).
I'd emphasize the new support for the LAME -Vx presets so it's easier to use them from a GUI like winLAME and being able to encode from any supported input format on the fly. AAC support is also pretty neat IMHO, making winLAME one of the most easy and versatile transcoding apps freely available.
Of course there's special care in the multichannel support so you can safely encode from/to multichannel Vorbis/AAC always keeping the right channel order for every format. Unfortunately few tools do this the right way.
Only non-ICL compiles of every library are provided because I don't want to depend on/redistribute intel runtimes (libmmd.dll) and anyways I haven't got intel's compiler. In case you want faster encodes you can simply get the available ICL compiles from RareWares.
Feel free to test it and report any opinions or thoughts in this thread.
Binaries: http://webs.ono.com/de_xt/winlame-test_040601.zip
Sources: http://webs.ono.com/de_xt/winlame-test_040601-src.zip
Hope you find it useful.
DeXT